# Denelle Dixon

> Denelle Dixon is a Series A investor at Stellar Development Foundation backing Financial Services. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Stellar Development Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stellar)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Sep 2024
- Lead investor: 40%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denelle-dixon-967a236/

Denelle Dixon is a Series A investor at Stellar Development Foundation in San Francisco focused on Financial Services and FinTech. Denelle Dixon is the CEO and Executive Director of the Stellar Development Foundation, a non-profit organization using blockchain to unlock the world’s economic potential by making money more fluid, markets more open, and people more empowered. Before joining Stellar, Dixon served as COO of Mozilla, one of the most successful mission-drivenopen-source organizations. During her tenure at Mozilla, she led the organization’s business, revenue and policy teams including the ongoing fight for Net Neutrality and the global effort to ensure that people can control their personal data. She also pushed Mozilla to understand how to partner with commercial entities while staying true to its core mission of openness, innovation, and opportunity on the web. A lawyer by trade, Denelle previously served as a general counsel and legal advisor in private equity and technology.Throughout her career, Denelle has been a vocal advocate for net neutrality, encryption, the disclosure of vulnerabilities by governments, and greater user choice and control.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Financial Services | 7 | 47% |
| FinTech | 5 | 33% |
| Payments | 5 | 33% |
| Blockchain | 3 | 20% |
| Apps | 2 | 13% |

18 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 20% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 13% |
| Corporate Round | 2 | 13% |
| Series B | 1 | 7% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 33% |
| Mexico | 1 | 7% |
| Estonia | 1 | 7% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 7% |
| Colombia | 1 | 7% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Arf | Arf, a VISA Innovation Program company, is a global #payment network enabling instant and fully compliant fiat-to-fiat #cross-border payments by leveraging regulated stablecoins for #financial institutions, especially EMIs, PIs, MSBs, ewallets, neobanks and digital #remittance companies. |  |  | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Arf | Arf, a VISA Innovation Program company, is a global #payment network enabling instant and fully compliant fiat-to-fiat #cross-border payments by leveraging regulated stablecoins for #financial institutions, especially EMIs, PIs, MSBs, ewallets, neobanks and digital #remittance companies. | $38M | Series A | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Huma Finance | Huma is an Income backed DeFi. | $28M | Initial Coin Offering | Sep 11, 2024 |  |
| Puntored | Puntored provides financial transaction services including payment, withdrawal, deposit, and virtual services to low and middle income population through more than 72,000 outlets in Latam. Puntored is the 2nd largest aggregator in Colombia offering a wide array of products through a nationwide network strategically located in base of the pyramidneighborhoods to reach the unbanked population in need of financial services. Puntored’s future is based on the migration from cash to electronic payments and rollout of products to participate across the shopkeeper’s full cash flow cycle. | $2M | Venture - Series Unknown | Aug 30, 2024 |  |
| Interstellar | Interstellar is a technology company revolutionizing international payments to deliver faster, cheaper and more reliable global financial solutions. It creates best in class products and solutions, primarily leveraging the Stellar blockchain network. These are either created and operated directly by Interstellar, or identified as benefits toother businesses, who integrate through and leverage the Interstellar Platform to operate on Stellar. Learn more at www.interstellar.com |  | Series A | Dec 28, 2023 |  |
| Stax | Stax is all of your bank accounts, mobile wallets, crypto in a single app that works without mobile data. | $500K | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 16, 2022 |  |
| Tribal | Tribal is a payments and financing platform using the latest emerging technologies to provide small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in emerging markets with better access to financial services. Tribal offers these SMBs access to modern payment methods like multi-currency physical and ​virtual business credit cards​, local and internationalwires, along with short-term financing, and a powerful ​spend management platform​ to track and control their expenses—all in one seamless interface. Tribal has raised from SoftBank Latin America Fund, QED Investors, BECO Capital, Stellar Development Foundation, and Coinbase Ventures. The company is also among an elite group of companies chosen as part of the Visa FinTech Fast Track program. | $40M | Debt Financing | Jan 06, 2022 |  |
| Tala | Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approvedborrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking.Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore. | $145M | Series E | Oct 14, 2021 |  |
| Abra | Abra is the digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin.Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serialentrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money. | $55M | Series C | Sep 15, 2021 |  |
| Airtm | Airtm is an e-wallet connected to over 300 bank and e-money systems via a peer-to-peer network and direct bank connections. Users hold their money as dollars or cryptocurrency, and can send and receive funds domestically and internationally. Airtm was founded in 2015 with the goal of leveraging digital money to help people in the developing worldsuffering from currency devaluation preserve their wealth and free their money from disconnected money networks.Headquartered in Mexico City and San Francisco, Airtm is a US-registered money service business. | $15M |  | May 25, 2021 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [TIBAS Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/100-y%C4%B1l-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Circle Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/circle-ventures-5201) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Distributed Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/distributed-global) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Folius Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/folius-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [HashKey Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hashkey-capital-9c60) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Partners for Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/partners-for-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Stellar Development Foundation

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Stellar Development Foundation is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets andsettle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar. Founded in 2014, the Foundation maintains Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.

5 contacts available at Stellar Development Foundation.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Boris Reznikov | Senior Director, Business Development & Partnerships | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boris-reznikov |
| David Mazières | Chief Scientist, Co-founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-mazieres |
| Denelle Dixon | CEO and Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/denelle-dixon-thayer |
| Jason Chlipala | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-chlipala |
| Jed McCaleb | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jed-mccaleb |

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## FAQ

### What does Denelle Dixon invest in?

Denelle Dixon invests primarily in Financial Services, FinTech and Payments startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Denelle Dixon last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Denelle Dixon closed in Sep 2024. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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